[8] Among its original anchors were Fred Graham, who was still at the network twenty years later; Cynthia McFadden; and Terry Moran, who later joined ABC News.

The magazine caused a stir in its very first issue, with Brill's article titled "Pressgate" charging that independent counsel Ken Starr and his office had been the source of much of the information for reporters regarding the grand jury proceedings about the Lewinsky scandal and that as a result, Starr may have violated federal law or ethical and prosecutorial guidelines.

In January 2001, as part of a joint venture, Brill took over editorial control of Primedia Inc.'s trade publications that reported on the media industry.

The long hours and stress of her job, with nightly calls to parents, and constant prodding of students, were affecting her marriage.

He reversed his view of Weingarten, and proposed that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appoint her chancellor of the school system.

In February 2013, Brill wrote Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us as a Time magazine cover story.

[28] Brill claims patients receive bills that have little relationship to the care provided and that the free market in American medicine is a myth, with or without Obamacare.

[30] TIME's managing editor, Rick Stengel, wrote: If the piece has a villain, it's something you've probably never heard of: the chargemaster, the mysterious internal price list for products and services that every hospital in the U.S. keeps.

[27] Brill later expanded the article into a book, America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System, released January 5, 2015, that attained The New York Times Best Seller list.

[31] On September 15, 2015, The Huffington Post Highline published Brill's 15-part serial documentary, "America's Most Admired Law Breaker,"[32] examining Johnson & Johnson's 20-year practice of illegally marketing a powerful drug, Risperdal, to children and the elderly, while concealing the side effects and earning billions of dollars in profit.

In March 2018, Brill and fellow veteran journalist and entrepreneur, Gordon Crovitz, again partnered to form a new for-profit company, NewsGuard,[33] which claims to fight fake news by providing reliability ratings for over 7,500 U.S. websites to help online readers distinguish between legitimate news sources and those allegedly designed to spread misinformation.

Tailspin was included on The New York Times Best Seller list six days after its release,[36] and regarding which renowned Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward wrote:[37] A penetrating and personal examination of why the United States is in the midst of a nervous breakdown.